Montreal Directory 1868-1869

By John Lovell

This detailed directory contains an alphabetical listing of the citizens of the city and a street directory. It also includes subscribers and advertisers classified business directories and a miscellaneous directory.

Contents include:

• Addenda
• Alphabetical Directory of Citizens [279 pages]
• Business Classified Directory of Advertisers
• Index to Advertisers Names
• Index to Advertisers Business
• Index to Subscribers Business
• Index to Street Directory
• Index to Miscellaneous
• Miscellaneous Directory of Banks, Benevolent and Religious Societies, Churches, Corporation, Military, Militia, Newspapers, Post Office, Railways, Steamers
• Preface
  Street Directory [103 pages]
• Street Index, including Avenues, Squares, Terraces, Places, Lanes, &c.

Individual Citizen's Listing

Typical listings of individuals include the name of the person, trade or profession and the home address.

• Example 1: Henry, William, gardener, 29 Emery
• Example 2: If a person was widow the listing might read: Hedge, Mrs, widow of Samuel, 8 Latour.

Business Listing
Businesses are usually listed with a short description of their enterprise:

• Example: HENDERSON & LOVELACE, coal and commission merchants, and importers of fire bricks and English pipe clay, 30 St Lambert hill, yards, St Lambert hill and St Elizabeth corner Vitre.

Street Directory
The street directory contains the street, street number, resident of the address, resident's occupation. Streets are listed alphabetically, with occupant's listed by street address number within each street name listing.

• Example street listing:  BONSECOURS [street/avenue], [runs] from St Paul north to Craig, East Ward.
• • 2 Vezina, Charles grocer
  • 8 Hazell, George H. confectioner
  • 9 Chalifoux, Mrs Luise, wid N., boarding house
  • 9 Tessier, Louis, dry goods, beds
  • 10 Paquette, Moise, liquors
    

Miscellaneous Directory
The Miscellaneous directory includes everything from churches and the officials to legislative assemblies, city government, notaries, banks universities and schools, mercantile, military, hospitals, societies, fraternaties, associations, steamship lines, post office department and more.

Details

578 Pages
6" x 9"
Hardcover
Originally published by John Lovell & Co., Montreal, 1868
This edition published by Global Heritage Press, Milton, 2000
ISBN 1-894378-38-5 ( premium hardcover)